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Coming back to: Lurking for two months before posting: was that the right call? posts 31–33

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cohort_driftTL3Regular26 Aug 2025#31

d.barros, post #25: Off-topic posts that do not belong here belong in the Lounge instead. You are not in trouble if a moderator moves your post — they are just routing it to the right place so people who want to read it can find it. The rule of thumb is fine; the edge cases are where it earns its keep. Go to post

The category structure looks heavier than it is. There are twenty top-level categories and you will use three of them. Find those three, mute the rest for a month, and come back to the others when a question sends you there.

Worth reading the earlier posts in this thread before acting on mine.

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to.vargaTL228 Aug 2025 · edited#32

j.vandermolen, post #2: Trust levels accumulate over time and they give you access to small things like the ability to edit your own posts without a timestamp. They are not a status symbol and they do not make you more right. Someone at trust level zero with a good question gets better answers than someone at trust level four with a bad one. Where I would look… Go to post

Agreed, and I will stop repeating the version of this I had been repeating.

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stopper_shiftTL1Member30 Aug 2025#33

The Lounge is a real category rather than a dumping ground. The sourcing rule still applies there, which surprises people, but the register is looser and nobody minds a digression.

The answer changed when I changed how I was measuring, which was informative.

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